La gestione del discorso: una funzione metadiscorsiva

Abstract

Speech management: a metadiscursive function Metadiscourse (MD) is the unique property of human language to codify messages on language itself. It reveals the author’s presence in reference to speech management and other interventions or comments with which the author either illustrates their opinion on the subject or leads the interlocutor/reader to an understanding of their message. MD was traditionally distinguished from propositional material and considered “material not belonging to the object of discourse”. This paper argues that MD not only supports propositional content, but represents the crucial means by which the latter is perceived by the interlocutor/reader. It also includes a presentation of Ädel’s so-called reflexive model, which avoids the dichotomy between proposition and MD, takes both the author and their interlocutor/reader into consideration, and appropriately highlights the reflexivity through which the importance of the author’s awareness of the text is brought into focus. The empirical part includes the illustration of the metadiscursive functions of the discourse marker cioè.

L’acquisizione dei marcatori metadiscorsivi negli apprendenti sinofoni d’italiano L2 e LS: Una ricerca longitudinale

“…Da quando è apparso il concetto di metadiscorso ci sono due principali correnti di studio riguardo alla sua classificazione, seppure limitatamente a livello generale, su cui ruotano intorno non pochi dibattiti e discussioni (si confrontino Kenda, 2020 e Ran e Ran, 2015). Anche se sembra che finora non ci sia una definizione unica, in linea di massima il concetto di metadiscorso può essere intenso in senso stretto e largo (Ädel, 2010e Hyland e Tse, 2004.…”